To not use proper spellings when naming your child

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Am I being unreasonable to think it's ridiculous to use a funky spelling of a normal name. I spent today dealing with lost paperwork for a child as the person that took the details didn't think to check the spelling as there is no other spelling of the name.

It looks silly and just causes no end of problems for the child. It also disadvantages them as straight away people get an image of what the child is like.

I've seen

Jaymz
Ezmay
Lil-leigh

Coeurtis! 😂😂😂

It's probably the Polish spelling

The mother of a friend of mine told her when she was expecting her first child that it should be a name you could put a title in front of such as Lord, Lady, King, Queen etc. That pretty much ties in with your views.

That brings to mind the thread about OP's friend/family member who called their DD Navy Lee (Lee has a middle name, not a surname).

Before being probed to give the actual name, she began by saying that "it's an adjective followed by a boy's name" and it was pretty quickly unanimously decided by all on the thread that it must be 'Fierce Barry'

Had a client with a normal name but she had to give me her legal name. It was properly mad think 80s singer with a prefix. She explained her mum was 16 when she had her. Made me feel sad hearing that.

Slightly off-topic but related: I have a Muslim friend who, because of the way that "surnames" were assigned to his parents when they arrived in the UK from a place that didn't really have them, has the same first and last name. Like "Abdullah Abdullah" (although not that). You would not believe the number of computer systems that have been "cleverly" programmed to detect that he has entered the same name in both boxes and so must be making a mistake. He's considered dropping one of the "h"s legally.

Likewise there was a bit of a kerfuffle in Ireland a while back when it turned out that one of the biggest banks wouldn't accept a fada (Ó) in someone's name, like Dara Ó Briain.

So all the people putting punctuation and whatnot in their kids' names are probably storing up a lifetime of not just ridicule, but also of "Computer says no"...

Also Caron Keating - the late DD of Gloria Hunniford who was once a Blue Peter presenter.

Made me think of Romelu Lukaku (plays for Napoli)

His first name is a portmanteau of his dad (also a footballer)'s three names - Roger Menama Lukaku.

Wondered if there will be a load of Belgian/ Scouse/Neapolitan kids running around now called Romelu! I think it's a cool name actually it sounds a bit like Romulus the Rome wolf boy.

Tadhg has a few variations.. my poor child has a wall of hurt coming down the tracks 😆

The mother of a friend of mine told her when she was expecting her first child that it should be a name you could put a title in front of such as Lord, Lady, King, Queen etc.

<cough>Prince Archie<cough>

Haha I haven’t got the patience of the kacper op to achieve that 😆

to be fair I didn’t know Ajay was an Indian name too though and pronounced differently until another poster pointed it out so I have learnt something new there

I have one with a fine Shakespearean name, too: Bottom.

This is the Polish version rather than a funky version!

People actually roll their eyes? I would judge you so hard for your "really unconventional spelling" but I wouldn't SHOW it!!!

I can see the thinking... but wouldn't you have a pretty good idea from their birth whether or not your DS was ever likely to become King?!

Princess Lilibet 🙄

There are three Jaxsons in my son’s class. It’s hilarious as they clearly all thought they were being ‘unique’ with that spelling 😅

Maybe Caron is the Irish spelling of Karen. I think she was Irish.

I think it is Freyja with no -h on the end.

MidnightMillie · Today 18:56

I'm Irish and for many years a lot of us have been moving away from Gaelic spellings.

My mam's mam and my dad's dad were Irish and so is my Christian name. My life has been spent fending off, "No, my parents aren't hippies and no, I'm not named after a river."

Along with answering to half a dozen variants, plain wrongs and one plural wrong name...

And it's not as if it's even difficult for an Anglophone...

I quite like Romelu!

I had a school friend whose name was a portmanteau of their Mum and Dad's name. Like Barry and Erica had a baby called Barica (but not that). Didn't think anything of it at the time, it sounded very believably a name.

I like Elphaba too which is a similar concept!

My sister is named Jane. You would be surprised how often it gets spelled exotically.

Jayne
Jaynne
Jahne

Wht the extra letters? It’s plain Jane for a reason!

I know a M'kayla

It's nice isn't it! I've floated it also few times but always been dismissed as biased because I'm a massive Everton fan and he was my favourite striker for many years lol. But glad to have a backup in it being an OBJECTIVELY good made up name 😂

Barica is gold!!!